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Campaign demands end to public information rip-off.(The Guardian)
Byline: Mark Chillingworth
A campaign by The Guardian
newspaper to make public-funded information freely available has uncovered some embarrassing government double standards.
The Free Our Data campaign by the newspaper's technology supplement is calling for government data held by taxpayer-funded public bodies such as the Ordnance Survey (OS) to be made available to companies and members of the public without charge.
"The aim is simple: to persuade the government to abandon copyright on essential national data, making it freely available to anyone," said Charles Arthur, editor of Technology Guardian. Arthur said that the current restrictions placed on government information were holding back innovation and limiting the number of information services.
A campaign blog has generated a lively debate, including the revelation by civil servant Chris Hancox that British citizens pay repeatedly for the same OS data when applying for planning permission.
Hancox has revealed a complex web of payments whereby taxpayer-funded local government bodies pay for OS map information as part of planning applications, with planning authorities paying again for similar OS ...
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Source: HighBeam Research, Campaign demands end to public information rip-off.(The Guardian)